Xú Qiān 徐汧 (1597–1645), zì Jiǔyī 九一, hào Wùzhāi 勿齋, posthumous title Wénmù 文穆 (Southern Míng); native of Chángzhōu 長洲 (Sūzhōu). Jìnshì of Chóngzhēn 1 / wùchén (1628); rose through Hànlín posts to Zhānshìfǔ shàozhānshì. A close associate of the Dōnglín circle in its post-1626 phase and a friend of 凌義渠; the Sìkù tiyao to the Líng Zhōngjiègōng jí (KR4e0241) names him jointly with his disciple 姜垓 as the editor of the surviving six juǎn (4 verse + 2 prose) of Líng’s writings, which Líng himself had burned before his suicide in 1644. After the fall of Běijīng and Nánjīng, Xú attempted to join the Lúwáng resistance; on the fall of Sūzhōu to Qīng troops in Hóngguāng 1 / 1645 he drowned himself in a pond at his home. CBDB 129922.